Direct Loan
Reconciliation
LASFAA
October 28, 2010
Barbara Davis
Reconciliation
• What is it?
• Three Parts
– Communication
– The meat
– Program Year close out
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Reconciliation: What is it?
• First of all- what it is not!
– The rumor mill
– Burdensome
– Something new to learn
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Fact or Fiction ?
• We are running about 99% reconciled each month – this shows that all the new schools that are coming are so far doing great!
• Prior year, 0708 and earlier are either 100% reconciled or have a few (<1%) schools unreconciled that have closed or have special issues
• 0809- 94% are officially closed and of the remaining schools, 33 have a $0 balance
• 0910- 110 out of 3886 schools are already closed
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Reconciliation: What is it?
• What is it?
– A Simple accounting of the funds you have drawn and disbursed
– Very similar to what you do with your personal banking
– Know where the money is
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Reconciliation: What is it?• What is it?
– Communication among school staff
•Registrar, Business office, Financial Aid
– The meat- drawing funds, reporting actual disbursements, making adjustments, monthly reconciliation
– Program Year Close out
•Cease sending records, drawing funds
•Confirm zero balance
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Communication• Involves 3 offices – Registrar, BO, FA
• What will you use to determine your funding needs and if those people are making satisfactory academic progress (SAP)?
• Tools and resources
– Pending disbursement list
– Action queue
– FSA Handbook, Volume 4
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Pending Disbursement List• Print one out of your software
• Use the pending disbursement list that COD provides (SAIG or Web)
– (DRI = false) with a disbursement date up to 6 days before or 45 days after the report generation date
– Fixed length or comma delimited
– Comma delimited – import into excel, sort and total by date range
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Fixed Length - Format
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Services/ COD reports
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Comma delimited version
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Action Queue/Pending Disbursements
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Action Queue
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Action Queue, continued
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FSA Handbook, Volume 4
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The meat- ie the core of recon
• Drawing funds
• Reporting disbursements
• Adjustments
• SAS
• Direct Loan tools
• School monitoring
• Other tools and resources
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Request funds via G5
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Drawing Direct Loan Funds• Advance Funding method
– Request, Credit, Report
– Credit, Report, Request
– Report, Request, Credit
• Report actual disbursements up to 7 days in advance
• Must report actual disbursements within 30 days of disbursement date
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Reporting Disbursements
• Anticipated vs Actual
• Watch your rejects
– Rejected disbursements = unsubstantiated funds
• Use your software import edit report or
• Review your batches on COD
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Batch Searches
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Up to 60 daydate range
Batch Search- Date Range Results
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Batch Detail
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Filter Batch by Rejects
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Record Reject
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Fsadownload.ed.gov COD technical reference
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Adjustments or corrections
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• Inactivating a loan
– Reduce to zero
• Changes needed to fees
• Increasing loan amount approved
• Decreasing loan amount
• Adjustments to a specific disbursement
– Date adjustments
– Disbursement amount adjustments
• Refunds = no cents = rounding rules
COD tech ref- Implementation Guide
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School Account Statement (SAS)
• Generated by COD on 1st weekend of the month
• Contains data through the end of the previous month.
• Separate SAS for each open award year
School Account Statement (SAS)• Four Primary SAS Components
‒Cash Summary
‒Disbursement Summary by Loan Type
‒Cash Detail
‒Loan Detail (Loan or Disbursement Activity Level)
• Different Report Options
‒Format (fixed length or comma delimited)
‒Content
SAS Options Screen
Euclid University
Schools Account StatementCash Summary - YTD
Cash Detail
Loan and Disbursement Detail
Direct Loan Tools
• Software downloaded from www.fsadownload.ed.gov
• New version released each year late June (3 years at a time)
• Read the SAS, compare to your school’s data
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Direct Loan Tools
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COD Technical Reference- Vol 4
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• COD Customer Service
– Customer Service Representative
– Weekly monitoring e-mails
– Reconciliation Team
– 800.848.0978 or
• COD web screens and reports
Other Tools and Resources
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School Monitoring Email
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School Monitoring Continued
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School Monitoring Continued
Cod web screens- cash activity
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Cod web screens- summary financial
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There’s MORE!• COD Action queue
– Date range search is huge-
– Choose your award year and then search back from current date to well before beginning of processing for that year
• Pending disbursement list
– Carries pending disbursements from the past
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How do I? Close Out the Direct Loan PY
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• Program Year (PY) closeout by July 31 of the year following the award year– July 31, 2011 for the 0910 award year
• COD website-balance confirmation screen
• No unsubstantiated cash
• Close out means no more reporting of disbursements, no more draws of cash, no more reports
• Reopening the year
Balance Confirmation
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Recap of Reconciliation
• What is it?
• Three Parts
– Communication
– The meat
– Program Year close out
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